Quotes with unfair

  • It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
  • There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

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  • Marianne Moore A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Bill Delahunt Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Terence How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Oscar Wilde I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Albert Ellis I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Eugenie Clark In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jane Austen It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Barbara McClintock It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do - or don't do.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Bob Graham It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Francis Picabia Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Anton Chekhov No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Billy Collins The disappointing second novel is measured against the brilliant first novel - often no novel lives up to the first. Literary improvement seems like an unfair expectation.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Arthur C. Brooks There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Douglas Murray Mcgregor TRUST: I know that you will not - deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously - take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence.
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  • Bernie S. Siegel We're all here for a limited amount of time, and life is difficult - not unfair, but difficult. The key is to really confront our fears because when we do, and when we look at them, we really begin to realize that we are capable of handling them.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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